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Wifeshopping: Stories

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*An award-winning debut that features brave, tender, and bittersweeet takes on the quixotic search for love. An honest, absorbing debut fiction collection "Wifeshopping" centers on the ultimate human quest: the search for companionship, love, and understanding. These captivating stories feature American men, lovestarved and striving, who try and often fail to connect with the women they imagine could be their wives. Some of the women are fiancées, some are new girlfriends, some are strangers who cross the mens paths for only a few hours or moments. In Beaching It, an artist traveling on the summer circuit begins an affair with a rich, married local. In Me and Paul, a lonely traveler adopts an alter ego to help him impress a single mother. In Bill, a trip to a flea market highlights the essential differences between a man and his fiancée. Throughout this thoroughly entertaining read,Wingates sympathetic characterizations reveal both the hopefulness and the heartache behind our earnest but sometimes misguided attempts at intimacy.

Language: English

Pages: 212

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Release: July 01, 2008

Wifeshopping: Stories

0/5 ( ratings)

*An award-winning debut that features brave, tender, and bittersweeet takes on the quixotic search for love. An honest, absorbing debut fiction collection "Wifeshopping" centers on the ultimate human quest: the search for companionship, love, and understanding. These captivating stories feature American men, lovestarved and striving, who try and often fail to connect with the women they imagine could be their wives. Some of the women are fiancées, some are new girlfriends, some are strangers who cross the mens paths for only a few hours or moments. In Beaching It, an artist traveling on the summer circuit begins an affair with a rich, married local. In Me and Paul, a lonely traveler adopts an alter ego to help him impress a single mother. In Bill, a trip to a flea market highlights the essential differences between a man and his fiancée. Throughout this thoroughly entertaining read,Wingates sympathetic characterizations reveal both the hopefulness and the heartache behind our earnest but sometimes misguided attempts at intimacy.

Language: English

Pages: 212

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Release: July 01, 2008

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